Conferences

Overview:

The Conference

Benchmarking studies on various oil refineries around the world by Solomon Associates have shown that rotating equipment accounts for more than 20% of all maintenance and inspection costs. In addition, rotating equipment is often at key nodes of the process and is frequently critical to production. Therefore failure would lead to unacceptable downtime costs.

This conference aims to provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of how to use a combined predictive and preventive maintenance approach coupled with proper failure monitoring to achieve maximum reliability and performance from rotating equipment.

The Goals

This seminar is an in-depth treatment of the major factors that have to be considered in order to assess and improve the reliability of machinery. It has been designed to illustrate fundamental reliability concepts without having to resort to complex mathematics. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between the rather theoretical subject of "Reliability Engineering" and day-to-day equipment maintenance practice by emphasizing the common goals of reliability and maintenance.

At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:

Apply the proven methodologies and templates which are introduced

Focus on key areas of reliability

Understand the nature of failure and how this affects performance of rotating equipment

Make the right maintenance choices for strategic equipment

Reduce the impact of plant downtime

Unlock the true potential of all of their people

The Process

The programme is delivered in a combination of lecture style and computer-based training. In addition, a significant amount of time is set aside for small working group activity when addressing case study problems. Extensive use is made of case study material to underline the key aspects of the course and to give the delegates exposure to current best practice.

The Conference Content

Understanding the link between Reliability and competitive advantage

Definition of Reliability

Probability of failure

Reliability metrics

Strategic Importance of Reliability

Assessing current performance

Making the right strategic choices

Using reliability modelling to establish inherent reliability

Basic modelling building blocks

Deterministic models

Probabilistic models

Markov chains

Monte Carlo models

Case study examples

Understanding the nature of failures in order to make the best response